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Author: George JohnsonPublisher: Random HouseISBN: 1409088235Size: 75.43 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 7065Download and Read
George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in every direction - these ten dedicated men employed diamonds, dogs, frogs and even their own bodies as they worked to discover the laws of nature and of the universe.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: Vintage Books USAISBN: 140003423XSize: 32.20 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 4455Download and Read
A distinguished science writer critically analyzes ten key experiments in the history of science and their implications for human knowledge, ranging from Galileo's measurement of the pull of gravity, to Isaac Newton's examination of how light causes vibrations in the retina. Reprint.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: VintageISBN: 0307268667Size: 25.20 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 345Download and Read
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history. With the attention to detail of a historian and the storytelling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces and scientists were in awe of light, electricity, and the human body. Here, we see Galileo staring down gravity, Newton breaking apart light, and Pavlov studying his now famous dogs. This is science in its most creative, hands-on form, when ingenuity of the mind is the most useful tool in the lab and the rewards of a well-considered experiment are on exquisite display.

Author: Robert CreasePublisher: Random HouseISBN: 9780307432537Size: 26.74 MBFormat: PDFView: 3499Download and Read
Is science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging exploration of history’s most beautiful experiments. The result is an engrossing journey through nearly 2,500 years of scientific innovation. Along the way, we encounter glimpses into the personalities and creative thinking of some of the field’s most interesting figures. We see the first measurement of the earth’s circumference, accomplished in the third century B.C. by Eratosthenes using sticks, shadows, and simple geometry. We visit Foucault’s mesmerizing pendulum, a cannonball suspended from the dome of the Panthéon in Paris that allows us to see the rotation of the earth on its axis. We meet Galileo—the only scientist with two experiments in the top ten—brilliantly drawing on his musical training to measure the speed of falling bodies. And we travel to the quantum world, in the most beautiful experiment of all. We also learn why these ten experiments exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations. From the ancient world to cutting-edge physics, these ten exhilarating moments reveal something fundamental about the world, pulling us out of confusion and revealing nature’s elegance. The Prism and the Pendulum brings us face-to-face with the wonder of science. From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Philip BallPublisher: Royal Society of ChemistryISBN: 0854046747Size: 48.53 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 7530Download and Read
This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about particular 'famous experiments'.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: VintageISBN: 140003423XSize: 67.47 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 7734Download and Read
A distinguished science writer critically analyzes ten key experiments in the history of science and their implications for human knowledge, ranging from Galileo's measurement of the pull of gravity, to Isaac Newton's examination of how light causes vibrations in the retina. Reprint.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: Random HouseISBN: 1407073532Size: 74.36 MBFormat: PDFView: 3961Download and Read
The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail. Several years from now, if this incredible shrinking continues, a single chip will hold a billion switches, then a trillion. The logical culmination is a computer in which the switches are so tiny that each consists of an individual atom. At that point something miraculous happens: quantum mechanics kick in. Anyone who follows the science news or watches 'Star Trek' has at least a notion of what that means: particles can be in two or more places at once. Atoms obey a peculiar logic of their own - and if it can be harnessed society will be transformed. Problems that would now take forever would be solved almost instantly. Quantum computing promises nothing less than a shortcut through time.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: Random HouseISBN: 1446485285Size: 47.34 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 7624Download and Read
No scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner considered by many colleagues to be the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discovery of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that followed in particle physics, the effort to understand the very stuff of creation, In this, the first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life.

Author: George JohnsonPublisher: VintageISBN: 030776544XSize: 74.24 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 4216Download and Read
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration of the border between science and religion, cosmic accident and timeless law. Northern New Mexico is home both to the most provocative new enterprises in quantum physics, information science, and the evolution of complexity and to the cosmologies of the Tewa Indians and the Catholic Penitentes. As it draws the reader into this landscape, juxtaposing the systems of belief that have taken root there, Fire in the Mind into a gripping intellectual adventure story that compels us to ask where science ends and religion begins. "A must for all those seriously interested in the key ideas at the frontier of scientific discourse."--Paul Davies From the Trade Paperback edition.

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